The council has a voluntary redundancy policy in place. The application window for voluntary redundancy is now closed.
No applications will be considered outside of the application window.
We are not obliged to accept an application for voluntary redundancy. The notional leaving date (expected last day of employment) for any voluntary redundancy application made during the last window is Saturday 31 October 2026.
The guidelines support management and the chief executive to understand your responsibilities to facilitate the voluntary redundancy process, should you receive an application from a member of your team and enable you to send the correct letter for the situation.
Use our management guidelines to help you navigate through the process from managing employee expectations to the deletion of a post at the end of the process.
For use by the chief executive only, to support applications from chief officers, from managing expectations to the deletion of a post at the end of the process.
Find the correct letter template to send to your team member based on the outcome of their application.